Not Poetry. Quatrain Verse in English & Swedish. Dagsverser. On the Mundane & the Arcane.
“Amazon? Ain’t it cloud nine!”
No, didn’t mean THAT brazen bungle
where billions are spent online
but the Brazilian jungle:
its rain forest desecrated
by deforestation incessant
the planet’s lungs perforated
while humanity stays quiescent!?
Yet another fatality
through consumer rascality
I jakt på förtrollning
febrilt vi ylar
efter underhållning
plus långt fler prylar
Enär ovärderlig tiden
‘tidsfördriv’ ett lurt begrepp
en förställning tungt förvriden
i dagligt liv ett missgrepp
Ett beklagansvärt folknöje
grundat i ständigt missnöje?
He carried on a lot
about urban blight
and societal rot
things not being right
While yearning for action
still right away every day
he kept losing traction
bogged down in the daily fray
So he digressed, slid back de-plumed
self-centered, in ill humor
into that for which he’d been groomed:
an entitled consumer
Unable to take in his stride
how poorly & weakly he tried
In support tepid but benign
on front lawns still a smatter
of that virtue-signalling sign
that somehow Black Lives Matter
But are we radically
finally willing attend to
not just sporadically
beyond the yard sign ballyhoo?
Are we committed to follow through
turning around what’s long overdue?
Sök ett insiktsfullt liv att leva
ej stirrigt i komplotter skeva:
Ej som tråkig pessimist
eller uppblåst myndig
ej lättrogen optimist
helst humorist fyndig
För kvällspressen sej akta
leta bortom huvudfåran
sök noga efter fakta
sårskilt bland humanioran
För klarsynt genklang å samklang
finner vi blott i sammanhang …
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-kvällspress = sensationsjournalistik
-sammanhang = kontext; perspektiv